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Protesters take to bathing spots across the UK to highlight water firms’ sewage dumping

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You’ll agree with Feargal Sharkey in a moment:

Channel 4 News reported:

Demonstrations are taking place at bathing spots around the country in protest against the dumping of sewage into the country’s seas and rivers.

Campaigners say mismanagement by water companies has led to more than 300-thousand sewage discharges last year.

Earlier this week, the water industry apologised and promised it would invest 10 billion pounds to prevent more spills – but warned water bills would have to go up to cover the costs.

Here’s the video clip:

For This Writer, the most revealing moment was the interview with a swimmer who had been very ill as a result of swimming in polluted water. It acts as a counterpoint – and a reality check – after former Cabinet minister Damian Green said he swam in sewage as a youngster:

Suppose – just suppose – that Green’s words are true and he swam in sewage with no ill effects. He’s effectively saying that the amount and toxicity of the sewage being dumped in our rivers now is far worse than in his day and his words should be used in support of demands for our waterways to be cleaned.

Ah, but our waterways are going to be cleaned anyway, we’re told – but at our expense, meaning the privatisation of water was pointless in terms of service provision:

So the only point of privatisation is to funnel your money to rich shareholders.

Believe it or not, water industry spokesperson Ruth Kelly – a former Labour government minister – has tried to justify privatisation and attack re-nationalisation:

Convincing any of us will be uphill work; look at what’s been happening while her shareholders have been guzzling billions of pounds of our cash every year and doing nothing to make the sewage system able to handle the current load:

Will the protests have any effect? Probably not.

As Tony Benn once said (and I’m paraphrasing), people with any power over you don’t care what you do unless you’re actually able to get rid of them.

And much government activity since 1979 has been about making sure we, the public, can’t get rid of them.

If you want to do anything about it, demonstrating in bathing spots is a good way to raise awareness, sure…

But if you want to make a difference, you need to motivate the people lounging around on their sofas, watching you on TV.

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Former Shadow Chancellor confirms water and energy privatisation are riddled with corruption

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John McDonnell: he knows exactly what’s been going on in the water companies since privatisation.

It’s always welcome when a senior politician confirms one’s suspicions.

In an article yesterday (May 20, 2023), This Writer suggested that greed has overtaken service provision in the boardrooms of both the privatised water and energy firms.

Now we discover that former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has reached much the same conclusion.

In an article published by the Yorkshire Post, he stated:

The water industry is second only to the energy industry in ripping off the British public. Since privatisation, the water companies have stolen from the average consumer of water in this country.

He added some details to the story of water privatisation, too:

Privatisation was meant to reduce prices, increase investment and make the industry more accountable to the wider public through shareholding. That has not been the case.

Those of you who have been following this issue on Vox Political will know I’ve stated that privatisation was meant to reduce prices and increase investment.

As for making the industry accountable to the wider public through shareholding, I’m not sure how that is supposed to be better than nationalisation, which makes the industry accountable to us all, rather than the comparatively few people who own company shares.

In any case,

It is not more accountable through shareholding, because most of the companies that now own British water are owned by overseas shareholders.

That’s overseas shareholders who own most of the British water companies, and not pension funds – as some apologists for privatisation have tried to claim.

And what has happened?

Since 1989, real water bills have risen 50 per cent. Since 2010, bills have gone up by more than 12.5 per cent. At the same time, individual family incomes have gone down by five per cent.

This is interesting:

Significant investment has been made in the infrastructure, but the problem is that since the 1990s that has declined as a proportion of the overall turnover of the industry.

How strange. Significant investment, yet the system leaks like a sieve. One hesitates to image what it would be like without this ever-decreasing contribution.

Most of the money we’ve paid the water firms, on the other hand,

has gone into paying interest charges on water company debts or dividends to their owners and shareholders.

It has now been exposed that some of the borrowing is being used to pay dividends to shareholders and high salaries to chief executives and board directors.

Six UK water companies took high-interest loans from their owners through the Channel Islands and then converted them into euro bonds. They then lent them back to the companies and paid virtually no tax on them whatsoever.

This is a tax scam for which these water companies are used as a vehicle… This is a scandal.

Mr McDonnell recommends, rather than privatisation, a shift to the not-for-profit company model exemplified by Welsh Water.

It’s nice to know that This Writer’s local water company is considered the way of the future by at least one influential politician – but I still think re-nationalisation is best; it eliminates the risk of corruption altogether (or, at least, should).

But what’s to be done about the scandal(s) that Mr McDonnell has identified?

Under the current government – nothing, most likely.

So we need a better government.

If more young people were encouraged to vote, we might actually get it. And it is in their best interest.

After all, it’s the young who’ll suffer the most over the long term if rampant water corruption and profiteering isn’t halted – not to mention the sewage scandal.

Source: John McDonnell: Our money seeps away into profiteering by water firms | Yorkshire Post

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Did Damian Green just explain what made him want to be a politician?

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Damian Green: here he demonstrates his technique for ensuring he didn’t swallow any sewage while swimming in it. Possibly.

Former Cabinet minister Damian Green has tried to justify all the sewage the water companies – privatised by Tories in the 1980s, remember – have been dumping in our rivers by saying he used to swim in it when he was a child:

Did he really?

I remember being warned not to swim in rivers as a child (I’m 13 years younger than Green), because of pollution. Maybe it had become worse in the intervening decade or so, but I still find his confession that he swam in other people’s excrement utterly remarkable – and revolting.

It has attracted exactly the kind of response one should expect:

Yes indeed – although we should remember that he was sacked from his Cabinet position for having filth of a different kind on his Parliamentary laptop (computer).

My personal opinion was that, having swum in … that as a boy, it explains why Green wanted to be a Tory politician in later life; he enjoyed the experience so much, he wanted to repeat it on a long-term basis.

And it has spawned a new strand of satire:

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Privatised water firms are charging YOU to clean up THEIR act

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Sewage being pumped into an English river: the water companies want you to pay £10 billion towards improvements in the system that will put a stop to this – after giving £66 billion to shareholders – who have done nothing. It’s an insult, isn’t it?

Nobody should be surprised by this. Yr Obdt Srvt (that’s me) stated that it would happen on This Site within the last few days.

It’s being reported that the privatised water companies in England have apologised for repeatedly pumping sewage into the country’s waterways and the sea around the British Isles – and have promised £10 billion of investment to modernise the sewer system.

But here’s the small print (courtesy of The Guardian):

Shareholders in water companies will initially fund the investments. However, the costs will be recouped from customers through unspecified increases in their bills determined by regulators, in a move which threatens to add further pressure to household costs.

So water customers are being made to pay extra for emergency work that should have been carried out since privatisation happened, and funded from the bills we have been paying.

The water firms have never done this, despite it being promised to us when they were originally privatised, because it would have interfered with their ability to pump £65 billion to shareholders in the same period of time.

As I write this, I’m watching the BBC’s Politics Live, on which Jo Coburn just said the water firms most recent annual payment to shareholders was £1.4 billion, up from £550 million the year before.

So they’ve nearly tripled the profits they’re paying shareholders while charging us for the investment in improvements that they should be providing from the cash they’re handing out in dividends.

Are you angry yet? If so, you’re still not nearly angry enough.

The panellists on Politics Live were angry, though:

(For completists, the full discussion is here.)

Despite handing out billions in dividends, it seems the water companies are also in debt:

And now they’re pleading poverty as the reason they’re going to take this extra cash from us (you won’t have any say in whether you pay it or not, remember; the water companies in each part of England have a monopoly there):

Already the government has been forced to defend the demand for you to pay more to get the improvements that British water was privatised in order to provide:

As you can see, Penny Mordaunt’s response was not satisfactory. In fact, in terms appropriate to the issue, it was, itself, sewage.

Labour’s Richard Burgon has the right idea:

The reason re-nationalisation is the answer is simple: it cuts out the parasites who’ve taken £66 billion that could have been used to modernise the water and sewage infrastructure.

Without those shareholders taking all that money and doing nothing to improve the system, water prices could have been much lower as well (and that was the other promise made to us when Margaret Thatcher’s Tories privatised water).

The whole process of water privatisation has been a massive con that has cost the British people tens of billions of pounds.

Amazingly, despite having had an opportunity to demand an end to it at eight general elections, the electorate has apparently been happy to accept this daylight robbery.

Are you going to accept this latest insult – not just to your finances but to your intelligence?

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The privatised water firms’ latest scam: cut off your supply

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Clean water: only a few days ago, this site stated: “Enjoy the photograph. Soon the only clean water you’ll see will be in images like this.” How true that was.

This is a sick joke:

Much of England is at risk of severe water stress by the 2030s if action is not taken to improve consumption and efficiency, new analysis has shown.

Data from water companies and the Environment Agency suggests that 12 out of 17 English regions will face severe water stress in the next two decades.

This includes almost the entirety of the South of England and the Midlands with demand expected to exceed supply.

At the moment, no region in England currently faces water stress

Oh no?

People in West Sussex might disagree with that. Read this:

Hundreds of Southern Water customers across Horsham and Chichester Districts were left with ‘no water’ following a ‘failure’ at one of the company’s supply works on Sunday, May 14.

Southern Water said the issue was caused by a failure at Hardham Water Supply Works.

So it seems Southern Water has not been efficient and its service failed as a result.

Is this a result of the long-term, profit-driven under-investment in the water supply infrastructure that people like Feargal Sharkey have been highlighting – with increasing success – over the last few (let’s be honest) decades?

There is no incentive that can induce the water companies to improve their infrastructure – either for supply or for the processing of raw sewage. Regarding the latter, we know these firms are happy to pay millions of pounds in fines while paying tens of millions to their shareholders:

The only answer is to re-nationalise. The public purse is paying for “sticking-plaster” repairs to the damage anyway.

There’s just one problem:

Neither Labour nor the Conservatives have any intention to allow the water companies to be brought back into public ownership.

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In 13 years, this is the only growth the Tories have given us

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At last the UK’s Conservative government report genuine, exponential growth!

Needless to say, it’s not the kind of growth that any of us would want. Here’s Feargal Sharkey:

And the pollution that gives rise to such disease is still taking place, despite the penalties that are being applied to the private water companies responsible:

This is the reason Brian May, bless him, was mistaken in his own recent intervention. Here it is:

He reckons regulation needs to be properly applied to the private water companies – but this misses the point: it is.

The problem is that the companies’ bosses have realised that it is cheaper to keep polluting and pay the fines than it is to implement system improvements that will allow the full processing of sewage and thereby the purification of our waterways.

They have also realised that the government is unlikely to increase those fines to such a degree that it would be wiser to carry out the work. Either the privatised companies would simply pass on the cost to their customers, or they would dare the government to put them out of business – because what would happen then?

Water companies are monopolies, whether the government admits it or not – operating on a geographical basis. And no matter what happens, someone has to provide the service.

So these businesspeople have us all over a barrel.

The only other alternative is for the government to pay for improvements with public money. But part of the point of privatisation was for improvements and modernisation to be funded from private investment.

So we come to the only logical solution: re-nationalisation.

And the problem with that is, nobody in charge of either of the UK’s two main parties wants to bring water back under public control.

It isn’t too expensive – governments can create the money to pay off the executives and shareholders. There’s no inflationary pressure either, if the government doing it taxes the cost back from, say, the rich (who took £700 billion for nothing during the pandemic, remember).

But, again, nobody in charge of the UK’s two main parties wants that cash back.

That’s all it is – a matter of will.

We simply need to put somebody in government who is willing to do what is needed.

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The water companies show us every day why they should be re-nationalised. Why won’t the politicians do it?

Clean water: enjoy the photograph. Soon the only clean water you’ll see will be in images like this – unless YOU put a stop to the raw sewage scandal.

Ash Sarkar does it again.

Appearing as a panellist on the BBC’s Question Time, she was asked to discuss the way privatised water companies have been allowed to dump raw sewage into the UK’s waterways, poisoning them – and have even gone beyond the permissible limit, incurring large fines.

The fact that the water firms then pay these fines make a very clear point – that it makes more financial sense to pay up and carry on polluting than it does to clean up their act.

Ms Sarkar put forward the obvious solution, and – well, you’ll see what happened, but “Frank Owen’s Legendary Paintbrush” gives the game away a bit:

She phrased that brilliantly, I thought.

And she passed responsibility on to Labour’s Thangam Debbonaire, to explain why her party is not offering re-nationalisation of the water companies as an alternative to the current Tory mismanagement that is stinking up the entire country.

Here’s what she said:

So, filling potholes in our roads is more important than cleaning up our environment and ensuring our natural water is free of diseases like the e.Coli that is infesting the river near Environment Secretary Therese Coffey’s own home?

No wonder Phil Waller tweeted what he did:

And while the politicians dither over technicalities (there’s plenty of money to pay for re-nationalisation; the problem is simply that the Westminster elite don’t want to stop the flow of profit), the rest of us continue to drown in our own waste – and theirs:

The answer is clear: if privatised water firms are refusing to clean up their act (and they are) then the owners need to be deprived of their profit stream by re-nationalisation. And if our current Westminster politicians like Thangam Debbonaire, Labour, and all the Tories won’t do it, then we must get them out of Parliament – for our own survival.

Now, how do you propose to do that?

Did Therese Coffey single-handedly lose the local elections for the Tories?

Raving it up: Therese Coffey likes to have a good time, and it isn’t hard to picture her dancing while the rivers overflow with condoms and tampons – or even while her government falls.

We all knew the wholesale pollution of our rivers and waterways with raw sewage, by privatised water companies, was one of the big issues of the local elections.

That’s why some of us see Feargal Sharkey as a hero of the anti-Tory effort:

But of course, he would not have had to lift a finger if the privatised water firms weren’t pumping sewage into our beloved, once-beautiful eco-system.

And who’s letting them do that? Therese Coffey, the Environment Secretary.

Still.

Perhaps it’s too early for the Tories to have got to grips with the reasons they lost 1,058 seats on local councils, because of the Coronation weekend.

But that doesn’t mean we should let Coffey off the hook. The damage being done every day is appalling.

For example:

“Onward to the general election,” says Mr Sharkey.

Yes. And the Tories probably won’t even have got the message by then!

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If you haven’t voted, check this map of sewage discharges in your area first

It’s still the big issue of the local elections, and now you can find out how big it is in your part of England.

(This is only really relevant to England because England is the only part of the UK that has totally privatised water companies.)

I refer of course to sewage pollution, as permitted by the Conservative government – and not (yet) restricted following a motion for such action in Parliament last week.

And it’s the normally Tory-supporting Express that’s sticking in the knife!

 

Here’s that “horror” map, for your information:

If you’re not happy that these profit-makers devoted their cash to paying huge dividends to their shareholders rather than on properly processing your sewage, your vote today is the only say you can express that… displeasure.

Remember: not only are these firms destroying the ecosystem, they are also charging you a fortune for the meagre services they provide because they know they have a monopoly in their part of the country.

If the Tories get a good result, they’ll be encouraged to allow worse from their corporate friends and donors.

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The pollution in our waterways is appalling; penalise the Tories for allowing it

“One of the most effluent nations in the world”: sewage by the seaside courtesy of the Conservatives. Let your local council know how you feel about that – if you can!

Some of the following tales of government-approved pollution in the UK’s waterways are shocking; horrifying.

Your elected representatives have apparently failed to hold the Tories to account for allowing it – but if you are in England or Northern Ireland, you have an opportunity to make them pay at the ballot box tomorrow (Thursday, May 4).

Just glance at these latest accounts of the ongoing natural disaster, which I present below without further comment, and take such action as you consider appropriate:

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